nytimes.com - David A. Laventhol, a former publisher of The Los Angeles Times and Newsday who made a journalistically acclaimed but financially doomed attempt to break into the New York City newspaper market by starting New York Newsday in 1985, died on Wednesday. He was 81 and lived in Manhattan.
The cause was complications from Parkinson’s disease, according to his son, Peter Laventhol.
In a 41-year career that took him from beat reporter at The St. Petersburg Times in Florida to assistant managing editor of The Washington Post and eventually to the top tiers of two more of the nation’s most respected newspapers, Mr.
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